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The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay
Paul Dobraszczyk
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Description for The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay
Hardcover. Cities are imagined not just as utopias, but also as ruins. In literature, film, art and popular culture, urban landscapes have been submerged by floods, razed by alien invaders, abandoned by fearful inhabitants and consumed in fire. Series: International Library of Visual Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 84 black & white integrated images and 16 pages of colour plates. BIC Classification: AMX; JFSG; RGC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. .
The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even fragile. Examining ruins ... Read more
The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city, whether that is by rewriting its past or throwing off old assumptions and proposing radical change. Seen in a certain light, for example, urban ruin and decay are a challenge to capitalist narratives of unbounded progress. They can equally imply that power structures thought to be deeply ingrained are temporary, contingent and even fragile. Examining ruins ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
International Library of Visual Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784537166
SKU
V9781784537166
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About Paul Dobraszczyk
Paul Dobraszczyk is a visiting lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. His research focuses on visual culture and the built environment from the nineteenth century onwards, and he is author of Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain (2014) and London's Sewers (2014), as well as co-editor of Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities ... Read more
Reviews for The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay
`The Dead City is an elegantly argued and lacerating insight into our contemporary collective ruin lust . The book binds together stunning images and carefully crafted prose in an elegy to ruin aesthetics, moving adroitly between critical commentary to personal experience and propelling the reader into unexpected introspection.' Bradley L. Garrett, University of Sydney